A classmate warns Lyla that a man named Corbin is destroying her locker. Confronting him, Lyla finds Corbin has a girl named Maya restrained and has discovered Lyla's secret writings on a sensitive topic. He taunts her, calls her a lowborn orphan, and threatens to expose her and destroy a cherished keepsake from her late parents. As he moves to smash it, a new man violently intervenes, grabbing Corbin's wrist and declaring, 'How dare you... touch her.'